Your home computer station uses 100 watts while idling. You decide to shut down your computer when you are sleeping. You turn the computer off at 11 p.m. and turn it back on again at 9 a.m. every day of the year. Your utility charges you 5.5 cents per kWh, how much will it cost you to run the computer for a year? How much money is saved by turning the computer off at night?

Your home computer station uses 100 watts while idling. You decide to shut down your computer when you are sleeping. You turn the computer off at 11 p.m. and turn it back on again at 9 a.m. every day of the year. Your utility charges you 5.5 cents per kWh, how much will it cost you to run the computer for a year? How much money is saved by turning the computer off at night?

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Chapter20: Electric Current, Resistance, And Ohm's Law

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Problem 64PE: Integrated Concepts (a) Assuming 95.0% efficiency for the conversion of electrical power by the...

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